Books of 2009...I think.
So, according to my very messy notebook, which is conveniently undated, this is what I read (in no particular order) last year:
(Book in italics are re-reads, books in blue I'm not totally convinced were read in 2009)
Jonathan Carroll - Sleeping in Flame
Susan Hill - Strange Meeting
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
Angela Carter - Heroes and Villains
Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies
John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Robert Graves - Goodbye to All That
Dominic Hibbard - Wilfred Owen
Eveleyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
Elmore Leonard - Out of Sight (this one I picked up at a bookshop in Ebisu whilst on a day out with a guy who could talk about heavy metal and movies all day in English, but clammed up on any other subject)
Daphne du Maurier - Jamaica Inn
Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
Kate Summerscale - The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Joe Hill - 20th Century Ghosts
Joe Hill - Heart-shaped Box
David Mitchell - Number9Dream
David Mitchell - Ghostwritten
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance
Caitlin R Kiernan - A is for Alien
Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
E M Forster - A Passage to India (I read this book about 20 times for my A-Levels, so it was nice to come back to it with no exam looming. E M Forster is still one of the best writers ever)
George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London
David Crytsal - By Hook or by Crook
Nicola Barker - Darkmans
Mark Gatiss - The Devil in Amber
Charles R Cross - Heavier than Heaven
Charlie Connolly - Attention All Shipping
Chuck Palahniuk - Choke
Azar Nafisi - Reading Lolita in Tehran
Donna Tartt - The Little Friend
E M Forster - Howard's End
Out - Natsuo Kirino (Where did this book go? Did I lend it to Kate?)
I no longer have a train journey to and from work, so my forced reading time is dramatically reduced. And I had a Japanese exam to study for, so for about 3 months, there was little in the way of reading, and for one month, nothing except reading in Japanese which, as it was mostly textbooks, is not included here.
As for movies...who knows.
(Book in italics are re-reads, books in blue I'm not totally convinced were read in 2009)
Jonathan Carroll - Sleeping in Flame
Susan Hill - Strange Meeting
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
Angela Carter - Heroes and Villains
Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies
John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Robert Graves - Goodbye to All That
Dominic Hibbard - Wilfred Owen
Eveleyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
Elmore Leonard - Out of Sight (this one I picked up at a bookshop in Ebisu whilst on a day out with a guy who could talk about heavy metal and movies all day in English, but clammed up on any other subject)
Daphne du Maurier - Jamaica Inn
Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
Kate Summerscale - The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Joe Hill - 20th Century Ghosts
Joe Hill - Heart-shaped Box
David Mitchell - Number9Dream
David Mitchell - Ghostwritten
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance
Caitlin R Kiernan - A is for Alien
Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
E M Forster - A Passage to India (I read this book about 20 times for my A-Levels, so it was nice to come back to it with no exam looming. E M Forster is still one of the best writers ever)
George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London
David Crytsal - By Hook or by Crook
Nicola Barker - Darkmans
Mark Gatiss - The Devil in Amber
Charles R Cross - Heavier than Heaven
Charlie Connolly - Attention All Shipping
Chuck Palahniuk - Choke
Azar Nafisi - Reading Lolita in Tehran
Donna Tartt - The Little Friend
E M Forster - Howard's End
Out - Natsuo Kirino (Where did this book go? Did I lend it to Kate?)
I no longer have a train journey to and from work, so my forced reading time is dramatically reduced. And I had a Japanese exam to study for, so for about 3 months, there was little in the way of reading, and for one month, nothing except reading in Japanese which, as it was mostly textbooks, is not included here.
As for movies...who knows.